The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations. / By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co.

  • Britton, John, 1771-1857.
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1807
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The pleasures of human life : investigated cheerfully, elucidated satirically, promulgated explicitly, and discussed philosophically. In a dozen dissertations on male, female, and neuter pleasures. Interspersed with various anecdotes, and expounded by numerous annotations. / By Hilaris Benevolus, & Co. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life.

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London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, Paternoster-Row, 1807.

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xvi, 223 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 7 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 12mo (17 cm)

References note

Abbey, J.R. Life, 260

Notes

By John Britton; occasioned by James Beresford's The miseries of human life; or, The groans of Samuel Sensitive and Timothy Testy. London, 1806. Cf. Halkett & Laing.
Added engraved and hand coloured title-page headed: Mirth versus misery. The pleasures of human life.
Plates drawn and etched by Thomas Rowlandson; frontispiece drawn by W. Satchwell, engraved by W. Bond.
Colophon: Printed by J. M'Creery, (Late of Liverpool) Black Horse-Court, Fleet-Street, London.

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